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Example sentences for: purportedly

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The NYT reports that New York University, contending that its name is being tarnished, has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of a sexually explicit Web site that features a secret camera purportedly spying on scantily- but NYU-logoed-clad women students romping in their dormitory.
Bin Ladin purportedly inherited approximately $300 million when his father died, and was rumored to have had access to these funds to wage jihad while in Sudan and Afghanistan and to secure his leadership position in al Qaeda.
They demanded that the plane be flown from Africa to Australia, purportedly "to make history," and refused to believe that there wasn't enough fuel on board to get there.
Rather than attack the case the way it has purportedly attacked its competitors, the company has largely ignored it, instead using its rebuttal opportunities to proclaim itself a producer of wonderful products and a dogged servant of consumers.
Under strong pressure from the GOP Congress in his third year in office, he submitted a plan that purportedly would balance the budget in seven years--at the price of deep domestic spending cuts.